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Heeeey everybody!

I've updated my spriting utilities, which made them crash far less often now. So in order to test the - stability - of the software I've decided to finish an old sprite from a year ago. Because I was tesing the stability of the software - I thought this may be a good name! So here's the "Stability Forces" officer.

The idea behind this was that a very long time ago my buddy comissioned me to make a sci-fi police officer of sorts, but explicitly stated that I would NOT give them a cap, but a helmet instead. Ofcourse that project never went anywhere. So years from that, last year, I remembered the idea beind the enemy and being the kind of a person I am, I decided to do exactly what I was told not to do And here's a security guard/police guy of sorts, with armor and stuff, and a cap.
You know, I always wanted to see a blue monster in Doom...

EDIT: Added the preview and the file as an attachment, so it looks more interesting now. I had no idea how to do this with all the new fancy imgur and whatnot.

Looks fantastic!!! Did you used a 3D model or it's entirely hand-drawn?

@Cabo_Fiambre - thanks man kind words made my day.
I used a custom 3d model as a base and then done some pixel editing by hand (pixel-pushing).

Indeed, it looks great - really good proportions for a Doom engine game.

The blue is a bit in-your-face IMO, but limited palette colours are what they are. Personally, these days I quite like doing sprites in Doomguy green and then using translations in DECORATE to colour them to whatever I want.

Thank you Enjay
I always had difficulty with proportions in Doom so I kept a close eye on references.

TBH, I enjoy working with Doom palette. Years ago I would make many different palettes, but nowadays I find Doom's palette a challenge and it's still pleasing artistically after all the years, the ultramarines, the pinks, oranges

Hey it looks pretty good! Nice work! btw this definitely gets bonus points for being a doom-style pistol wielding human without holding an invisible rifle barrel.

@Toberone - hey thanks Yeah I'm keen on making sprites that are universal, without making them generic, so people can edit them mayhaps to other things.
I had a generic NPC in works, but it went sour. I'll make the attempt again the nearby future.

Just because i'm curious, what modelling software do you use?

This looks pretty damn good! I shall give my rating now. It is difficult but let's give it a 9 out of 10!

@Cabo_Fiambre - I use Gmax, which is a very old version of 3ds max without rendering, shaders, plugins. It was originally developped for making game content, low poly models, however I use it in a traditional sense to make hi-poly base which are then spritised with some pixel editing.
I could not get 3ds max since it's expensive while old versions have difficulty running on 64 bit hardware.
And sadly, I never learned Blender

@NeonLights95 - such kind words, thank you

Great as always

@Vegeta - nice to see you as always old buddy

Hmm... the Stability Officer could fit quite well within Doom and Strife.

@undeadmonk354 - feel free to use in your mods